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This May will mark the two-year anniversary of when Chester County Hospital broke ground on an expansion and renovation project spanning more than 300,000 square feet that will enlarge the existing Emergency Department and add state-of-the art operating rooms, interventional hybrid/procedure rooms and a 99-bed patient tower.

In the past 20 years since the field took off, much has been discovered about how this unseen ecosystem interacts with all aspects of human life, and the rate of discoveries shows no signs of slowing.

There’s a question making the rounds on the internet that has a spectrum of answers: Is the keto diet healthy?

Since the inception of the of the Innovation Accelerator Program in 2013, 30 projects tackling some of health care’s toughest challenges have been funded.

When German cardiologist Andreas Roland Grüntzig presented his idea for balloon angioplasties in 1976 to clear blockages in the heart, he was told, “It’ll never work.” Now, the surgery is performed more than a million times per year, roughly as common as knee replacements.